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Sunday, December 8, 2013

Irandam Ulagam - my opinion

It’s been a while since I have
updated my blog. After joining job in May, I didn’t get much free time as
before. Being in a banking sector, my weekend is restricted to only one day,
Sunday. That one day leave used to go off in either washing or sleeping or
both. I almost forgot that I am having blog account and it was not updated
after April 2013. Even now I have no big intention to post anything. But after
seeing different reviews and opinions about the recent Tamil flick Irandam
Ulagam, I feel that I also should post what my opinion about the film. A few
days back, I watched the film with my colleagues in Ramesh Theatre,
Ramanathapuram. One reason I chose to watch the film in that theatre rather than
the one in my hometown is that, it was a well maintained, neat cinema hall with
fantastic acoustics and ambiance.

Before watching the film itself,
I’ve heard many reviews from friends and blogs with most of them happened to be
negative. Much of them said that the script is worst, sema mokka film, can’t
bear the length, no logic at all, blah blah blah. I don’t deny that the script
is weak and lengthy. But the film is not as bad as the negative criticisms it
got so far. Tamil cinema audiences enjoy films like Azhagu rajas, sagunis,
singams, thalaivas, vaalibar sangams, etc, etc without any logic and story. But this is a fantasy movie. Why expect
logic in a fantasy movie? Funny, isn’t it?

At the interval, my friend asked
me how the film was. I said “story ellam sumaar than.. but parkirathuku sema
colorful a iruku.. Fantastic visuals” (its little boring, but very colorful).

I agree with my friend
completely. Irandam Ulagam comes with never-seen-before visuals in tamil
cinema. For that one reason I’d like to watch the film one more time despite
its boring second half. This is neither the best of Selva, nor great like his
previous ventures Puthupettai, Rainbow Colony. But surely a milestone in tamil
cinema when it comes to visuals. So much vivid and I was amazed at the visual presentation of the film. Had the director concentrated a little more on the script, it'd be more terrific. I am not trying to exaggerate
things here as a Selvaragahavan fan. As a movie buff, I quite liked this film because
of its vivid imagery, despite some flaws the film has come along with. This was what came to my mind while coming out of the
theatre. Apart from the fantastic imagery, I liked the actings of Arya and Anushka also.

I still don’t understand why
people don’t welcome such a new, brave attempt. Who knows... If it comes from a
newcomer director or the same has been made in English by a James Cameroon or
a Spielberg and dubbed into regional languages, they will silently watch it
keeping aside the logic and other things and praise it, like how they praised
Avatar and Jurassic park.

Ok. Let’s stop here. I am not
going too deep. This is not a review of the film. I just wanted to share how I felt after watching the film. Those who haven’t seen the film yet, please watch it in
theatres and give your honest opinions.